Telefilm Talent to Watch Info Session

JAN 15 | 7:30PM
STUDIO 194 | ORANGE HUB
10045 156 ST NW
RSVP PROGRAMMING@FAVA.CA

TELEFILM – TALENT TO WATCH PROGRAM

Are you a FAVA member with your first feature film in the works? Do you have a narrative project that you want to make specifically for online distribution? If your answer is yes to either of these questions, the Telefilm Talent To Watch Program may be the golden opportunity you were looking for!

Formerly Telefilm’s Micro-Budget Production Program, the Talent To Watch program finances emerging content creators who are recent alumni of a partner educational institution, active members of partner cooperatives or recent participants of partner film festival incubator initiative, or who have directed a short film that was selected at a recognized film festival. The program also provides automatic funding to projects directed by an emerging director having previously directed a short film that has won a prize at a recognized film festival.

The Talent to Watch Program – Funding of First Feature Films and Web Projects from Emerging Filmmakers aims to support emerging filmmakers, accelerate their career development, and to allow them to develop an expertise in digital marketing and promotion of audiovisual projects.

The maximum contribution amount through this program is $150,000 for feature films and $125,00 for narrative-based projects of over 75 minutes.

Support under this Program is provided through three separate streams: the Selective Stream, the Festival Selection Stream and the Fast Track Stream.

Selective stream:

Financing will be given to projects chosen among those recommended by designated industry partners for each component of the Program (see full list of partners in documents. FAVA is one of these partners.

The different components are:

• Main component
• Indigenous component
• Official-Language Minority Communities (OLMC) component

Unfortunately, FAVA is not currently a partner for the OLMC component. Please see the list of partners provided on Telefilm’s website.

Key members of the creative teams of all submitted projects must be emerging talent: they must have previously produced, directed and/or written at least one short film  but cannot have previously held the same key position in a feature length film.

Guidelines can be downloaded here

Prospective creative teams must apply to a designated partner of the program. FAVA members can apply to FAVA and the application will be reviewed by a jury of peers.

It’s easy to join FAVA. Download a membership form 

If you are applying to FAVA your application must include:

The entire Telefilm application and related documents including:

– completed screenplay

– pitch video (maximum 5 minutes)

– written synopsis of the project (maximum 750 words)

– director’s vision (up to three pages in length)

– a promotion and distribution plan for the project (up to two pages in
length)

– a production schedule (from pre-production to digital release)

– budget top sheet (using Telefilm template)

– any other information that sets the project apart

– applications to the Indigneous component shall address the issue of how
the team sought to engage the various Indigenous communities that will be
impacted by the project,

**PLEASE CONSULT TELEFILM GUIDELINES TO ENSURE THAT ALL ABOVE MATERIALS
MEET THEIR REQUIREMENTS**

To submit your application, put all of the above into ONE Dropbox folder and send the link to programming@fava.ca. Please put Telefilm Talent To Watch Program Application in the subject heading of your email and please specify whether you are submitting to the Main Component or the Aboriginal Component and whether it is for a feature or web-based narrative.

FAVA must receive that email by noon mountain standard time on February 12, 2020.